Jennifer Rubin loses the conservatives

12/6/12 1:32 PM EST

The Washington Post's conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin spent much of 2012 having to put up with attacksfrom the left, with many calling her a mouthpiece for the Mitt Romney campaign.

With her latest column on Sen. Jim DeMint's departure from the Senate to Heritage Foundation -- in which she writes, "By embracing him, Heritage, to a greater extent than ever before, becomes a political instrument in service of extremism, not a well-respected think tank and source of scholarship" -- she is now enduring equally strong criticism from the right.

"Romney's mouthpiece claims to be a conservative and writes 'good riddance, Mr. DeMint,'" Erick Erickson, the founder of the conservative blog Red State, tweeted. "In the history of ignorant takes on conservative, @JRubinBlogger may have just written the most ignorant thing ever."

A more vitriolic message comes from conservative radio host Mark Levin: "Go to hell, Jennifer Rubin," he wrote.

It ain't easy being Jen Rubin right now, that's for sure.

UPDATE (1:49 p.m.): Erickson takes issue:

Seriously? To say she lost them presumes she had them to start with. This just reaffirms she never did.